A foundational concept of our current public health ideology is that viruses and bacteria are the cause of many illnesses, and that these agents are potentially contagious. This ideology forms the basis of the vaccine paradigm and the justification for vaccine mandates for ‘the greater good’. This foundational concept of public health has been questioned in recent years with many more people asking – “Do viruses exist?”
While this emerging topic is of interest to VCC, we do not yet have a definitive statement on our position with regards to the existence of viruses but rather continue to be open to the various perspectives, evidence and dialogue, allowing the evidence to ultimately determine our position. We recognize that there are limits to scientific knowledge and systems of measurement and that the tools or methods to make a definitive decision may not yet exist. One must be cautious about following what others have stated without exploring the validity of their conclusions. The challenge is to remain open-hearted, objective, and free of bias.
What we do know is that access to information requests made to various organizations, universities, public health agencies and governments in multiple countries have failed to provide definitive evidence of viruses. Similarly, a number of prominent scientists, physicians and virologists have reviewed the original studies that have been used to argue the existence of viruses and found them to be poorly designed and unable to confirm the isolation or purification of a virus. We recognize that absence of evidence does not necessarily constitute proof that something does not exist. Nor does it rule out the existence of other yet to be identified agents that may have a role in the manifesting of symptoms that may lead to someone being diagnosed as ‘sick’.
Another claim that is made about viruses is that in addition to making people ill, these people can in turn make other people ill. In other words, ‘sick’ people are considered to be contagious. This is in alignment with the germ theory which claims that people become sick due to exposure to germs and that they can in turn spread germs to others thus making others sick. (1) Studies and observations have shown that when people are experiencing symptoms such as coughing, sneezing or fever, some people close to them may experience similar symptoms while others will not.
The terrain theory may explain some of this occurrence. This theory states that if the body (the terrain) is healthy, then germs which are a natural part of the environment, can be successfully managed by the body without causing evidence of illness. In the early 1800’s, Béchamp was studying the theory that the body’s ability to develop disease or to heal was dependent on its general condition or its internal environment. (2)
Many who explore the existence of viruses often ask, if a virus is not causing symptoms of illness, then what is? A number of explanations have been proposed including dietary deficiencies, contaminated food, unhealthy lifestyle, herbicides, pesticides, air pollution, increased electromagnetic frequency exposures, other toxins and poisons in the environment, pharmaceutical products, emotional stress, fear, anxiety, social contagion, the nocebo effect (getting ‘sick’ because we believe we will get ‘sick’), toxic relationships, and trauma.
There are many ways we can impact each other both positively and negatively. As humans we are social beings. We are also energetic beings. We can impact each other’s energy and health through our bio-field. (3) We experience this energy in everyday life. For example, when walking into a room where a heated argument has just taken place or noticing how you feel after you have been with someone who has a particularly negative attitude. There is the common yet poorly understood occurrence of women’s menstrual cycles aligning with each other when they are in the same place. The fascinating world of quantum physics (4) refers to the possibilities that exist in the quantum field when the wave function collapses to a particle – or the possibility is manifested in our physical world.
At this time, it is our understanding that viruses may exist in some form but the evidence to date does not provide clear understanding of their physical nature and specific impacts on the body. There is more we need to understand. The existence of viruses does not exclude the existence of other causes of illness or contagion.
VCC will continue to monitor this evolving subject and remain open to respectful dialogue with those who hold different perspectives.
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References:
(1) http://infectiousdiseases.edwardworthlibrary.ie/Theory-of-Contagion/
(2) https://www.brmi.online/antoine-bechamp